Count Your Blessings

We are so blessed in this country that we often take the
blessings for granted. We ought to do as the song says, “Count
your blessings, name them one by one.” We sometimes do that
at Thanksgiving, but we ought to do it regularly. Below are just a
few of the blessings we can count – form your own list and
meditate on how blessed you are.
1. Our physical families.
2. Our church family – many of us are closer to our church family
than our physical families because we have the same goals,
purpose, and standard, (Galatians 3:26-29).
3. The blessing of having God's word (the Bible) in our own
language, and it is so easily accessible, (Psalm 119).
4. Times when we can assemble for Bible study and worship so that
we can be encouraged, (Hebrews 10:25).
5. The blessing of having a conscience free from guilt because of
the forgiveness we find in Christ, (Romans 8:1).
6. The blessing of prayer where we have a mediator between us
and God, the Father, who understands us and our needs, more
than we understand ourselves, (I Timothy 2:5; Hebrews 4:14-16).
7. The blessing of having joy and peace in the depth of our souls
even though we live in a world of conflict and turmoil, (Philippians
4:6-8).
8. The blessing of having time after laboring for our physical
necessities. There are places in the world where nearly every
waking hour is spent just trying to put together the essentials for
one's family, (Matthew 6:19-33).
9. The blessings of so many time-saving appliances which makes
life easy so that we can have time to do other things, (Ephesians
5:16).
10.The physical comforts such as warm homes, nice cars, enough
income that we can enjoy life and what it has to offer, (I Timothy
6:8-10).
11.The blessing of living in such a beautiful place so that we can
enjoy the wonderful sunrises and sunsets and the mighty
mountains around us. Let's take time to enjoy them, (Psalm 19:1-
6).
And the list goes on.
Wayne Burger